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1995-09-25 - Re: Netscape “random” number seed generator code available

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Message Hash: ac734ea8f52e18f7bfa63ca576c074170621f3c57eab4af66b228ca7339be585
Message ID: <199509251359.JAA21321@homeport.org>
Reply To: <445j6k$h03@tera.mcom.com>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-25 17:05:33 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:05:33 PDT

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From: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 95 10:05:33 PDT
To: jsw@neon.netscape.com (Jeff Weinstein)
Subject: Re: Netscape "random" number seed generator code available
In-Reply-To: <445j6k$h03@tera.mcom.com>
Message-ID: <199509251359.JAA21321@homeport.org>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Jeff Weinstein wrote:
| 
|   More on the RNG stuff.  On Unix systems we look for ~/.pgp/randseed.bin,
| and feed it through the RNG hash.  On Unix and PC systems we feed the
| environment through the hash, so that would be a good place for a
| concerned user to put some random stuff of their own.

On a SunOS (or any BSD) box ps -e will get you environment variables.

ps -eaxuw
USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT STAT START  TIME COMMAND
root        53  0.0  0.0   68    0 ?  IW   Sep 19  0:02 portmap HOME=/
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb
root        68  0.0  0.0   16    0 ?  I    Sep 19  0:00  (biod)
root        58  0.0  0.0   40    0 ?  IW   Sep 19  0:00 keyserv HOME=/
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb


Adam


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